Ancestral genomes, sex, and the population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 0226-0235

  De Freitas, Jorge M ^a   Augusto Pinto, Luiz ^a   Pimenta, Juliana R ^a   Bastos Rodrigues, Luciana ^a   Gonçalves, Vanessa F ^a   Teixeira, Santuza M R ^a   Chiari, Egler ^a   Junqueira, Ângela C V ^b   Fernandes, Octavio ^b   Macedo, Andréa M ^a   Machado, Carlos Renato ^a   Pena, Sérgio D J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENBANK; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROGENY; RECIPIENT; RNA GENE; SEX; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEX FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33645787855     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020024     Document Type: Article

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